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An Uber passenger was killed early today after getting out of his ride at the side of the 405 freeway in Carson in an attempt to help those involved in a multi-vehicle crash, authorities said. He was one of three fatalities at the scene. The California Highway Patrol was called...

Los Angeles' hit-and-run epidemic is well-known. And our affinity for the car is legendary. So it should probably come as no surprise that Los Angeles County has the highest number of pedestrian deaths in the United States, according to a new analysis by the Auto Insurance Center. The organization looked...

The U.S. Coast Guard searched overnight for a woman reported to have gone overboard during a five-day boat party organized by a Los Angeles record label. The search was focused 22 nautical miles off the coast of Cuba, the Coast Guard said in a statement. The cruise ship in question...

The most amazing thing about Harrison Ford's crash-landing at Penmar Golf Course in the northeast corner of Venice on Los Angeles' congested and dense Westside is that he survived— and nobody on the ground was killed. Officials say the pilot (they aren't confirming it's Ford) The long, skinny golf course...

The harrowing early-morning collision between Camarillo and Oxnard of a Metrolink commuter train and a truck, in which the truck driver apparently tried to flee, left an estimated 30 Los Angeles-bound commuters injured including four in critical condition. It is not known if anyone was killed, and authorities have thus...

Sheriff's investigators today asked witnesses to the weekend's deadly accident involving Bruce Jenner to come forward. The plea indicates that authorities are having a hard time placing blame in the noontime chain-reaction crash Saturday that took the life of 69-year-old Kim Howe of Calabasas. Sheriff's officials said that a Toyota...